Lara Esther Bartels

Lara has a sound interdisciplinary background. Trained as a sociologist in Bielefeld, she focused on developmental and environmental sociology as well as qualitative methods. At the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna she completed her M.Sc. in Social- and Human Ecology with a specialisation on land use change. She then worked as an intern for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) on the project "Natural Resource Management" in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, before coming to start her PhDin the WaterPower project at the Geography Institute at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, now based at Trier University.

2010 – 2013 Master Program Social and Human Ecology at the University of Klagenfurt, Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna (Magistra rerum naturalium /Master of Science). Thesis: Socio-Ecological Impacts of Land Grabbing for Nature Conservation on a Pastoral Community: A HANPP-based Case Study in Ololosokwan Village, Northern Tanzania

Bartels, L. E., Bruns, A. (2016). Land Disputes and Water Business? The Privatization and Commodification of Land and Water and its hidden Solidarities, Insights from Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana. paper presented at the international conference: Accessing Water in Africa: emerging paradigms between risks, resiliences and new solidarities. 4th – 6th of July 2016, Paris.